[CentOS] [OT] Cannot boot into GUI after Video Driver is Installed

Mon May 21 16:08:41 UTC 2012
Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com>

On 21 May 2012 11:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Earl Ramirez wrote:
> > On 21 May 2012 10:06, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >> Earl Ramirez wrote:
> <snip>
> >> > A few weeks ago I was trying to install KVM on my laptop, I bought a
> >> > new laptop and immediately after I install the nVidia drivers I
> receive
> >> > the following error "libfcoe_device_notification: NETDEV_UNREGISTER
> lo"
> >> >
> >> > I spent several hours googling the error and there are several issues,
> >> > however none of them are related to my situation.
> >> >
> >> > I am running CentOS 6.2
> >> <snip>
> >> You say that you deleted xorg.conf, and could then boot into runlevel 5
> >> using the default drivers. If you do an lsmod, does it show nouveau?
> >>
> >> When I do lsmod I see nvidia
> <snip>
> >> Second question: does the version of kmod-nvidia support your graphics
> >> card?
> >
> > This is interesting now that you mention it, the sticker on the laptops
> > says "nvidia GEFORCE GT 635M 2GB" and when I run lspci I see the
> > following.
> >  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT
> > 555M] (rev a1).
> >
> > I verified that nvidia 635M is supported on the nvidia site.
> > Version:295.53 CertifiedRelease Date:2012.05.16Operating System:Linux
> <snip>
> >
> >> Oh, and did you yum install it, so that you got nvidia-x11-drv?
> >>
> >> I installed it using yum.
>
> But what I was asking was whether this version of kmod-nvidia uses the
> nvidia-released support for that card. You said you bought a new laptop
> that this is on - is that brand new out of the box, or new-to-you, used?
>

Yes the version of kmod-nvidia supports it and it's new out of the box

> >
> >  The correct version is x86_64
> > [wildfire at wildfire ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> > nvidia-x11-drv-295.53-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> > kmod-nvidia-295.53-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> > [wildfire at wildfire ~]$
> >
> > I don't know if this will shed any light but usually before you see the
> > login screen you will see nvidia once it have been installed correctly,
> > however I am see intel which is strange.
>
> *That* is extremely strange. Could there be a second, Intel, video?
>

Don't see any thing that indicates that there is a second intel video only
thing that is intel is the processor and the chipset

This the the laptop that was bought
http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-n55slds71-preorder-p-3556.html

>
>      mark
>
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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez